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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Even if your talented goalie is standing around with not much action, other parents will feel he has played the whole game.[b] Hard for coaches to justify subbing your kid into a field position when there are others who may not be getting any playing time[/b][/quote]

I don't think that should be the case.  They would likely swap a goalie in for a defensive position, which tend to get subbed out less.[/quote]

On DC's team they tend to sub the goal into the mid field and all the field player families are really upset about this because it's a full roster. A few parents were fuming about it last game.[/quote]

OP here,

I don't really understand this.

If my kid is in the goal, then the other goalie is in the rotation on the field.  If the kids trade places, it's not leading to more kids competing for spots on the field, because someone else is taken out of that competition.

I can understand that if the other goalies don't actually want to play goalie (and I don't know if this is true or not) that kid/family would be upset.  I think part of the problem is that the coach told us my kid would be one of several goalies.  In reality, he seems to be the only specialist. [/quote]

There are kids who don't play a full half of the game and if the goal keeper was getting field time in addition to playing goalie for half the game and sometimes playing the full game this would for sure make me furious with the club.[/quote]

For me, it would depend on how good he was in goal, and how good he was in the field. 
My kid is on a very good 2nd level team, without a goalie. 
I would 100% be OK with getting a really good goalie on the team, even it it meant he only played a half in goal, and most of the second half in the field, assuming he was at the same level as the other kids in the field. 
If he hurt the team by playing the field, that would be another story. [/quote]

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